Backbase Rated 'Excellent' by InfoWorld

In a comparison of leading commercial AJAX solutions, the InfoWorld Test Center gave the highest rating to the Backbase Enterprise AJAX Framework. Its great to see independent authorities to confirm the quality and added-value of the Backbase software. More info below. Backbase excelled in ease of development and documentation, and had top scores for capability and performance. InfoWorld concludes: "If you’re adding AJAX gadgets to an existing or forthcoming Struts, JSF, or .Net project, then Backbase would be a good choice".

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New Analyst Report Describes How the Enterprise Can Derive Tangible Benefits from Adopting Web 2.0 Technologies

Serendipity Technologies Inc., a provider of Enterprise 2.0 software products that consumerize the enterprise application experience, today posted on its website a new IDC report that shows adoption of Web 2.0 "consumer" technologies can give the business user a more intuitive work environment, streamlining information overload and creating significant efficiencies in

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Most popular free Web 2.0 apps from Sourceforge

Sourceforge.net is a repository of free open source software, and a lot of it applies to e-business. Sourceforge compiled this list of the top 10 most popular Web 2.0-related applications available on the site. Click on the product name to get more information and download links straight from Sourceforge.

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First Self-Moderated Forum With Orca 1.0

Today BoonEx Community Software Experts releases a new, open source, AJAX-powered integratable forum software.

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OpenOffice gets document sharing

Dutch company O3Spaces has released collaboration software that it says rivals Microsoft's SharePoint. The software, called Workplace, works with open-source suites StarOffice and OpenOffice.org and is one more step in providing an equivalent alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office software.

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German Companies Top List of Best Corporate Web Sites

Russian companies have the worst corporate Web sites in Europe and make the least amount of information available to investors, analysts and other people seeking data to make investment decisions, according to a survey of 16 countries to be released Thursday.

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qooxdoo 0.6.2 released

Good news, everyone! Despite of the minor change in version number, this release is again a major step in…

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Orb Entering Mobile "YouTube" Market

"With the recent relaunch of Orb 2.0 aka Orb MyCast, the folks at Orb Networks had way more in mind then just relaunching the PC interface based on Web 2.0/AJAX technologies. No, in future the new frontend interface and backend structure allows the Orb user to make Orb MyCast an even better and personalized experience then it was before by adding dynamic content.

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AJAX with PHP

Now that you know how to use AJAX with ASP.NET , let us take you a step further. Similar to Web services and XML, libraries for AJAX are available for many programming languages, not excluding PHP. For a quick recap on what is AJAX, it allows a JavaScript on a Web page to call a server-side script.

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Ajax meets client/server with ObjectWeb framework

With the philosophy that some developers enjoy fond memories of the powerful clients of client/server, Capgemini subsidiary Sogeti is donating a new Ajax framework to the ObjectWeb consortium.

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Your Online Office

Internet productivity suites innovate with online sharing and storage, but don't yet challenge Microsoft for document-creation features.

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FedEx Kinko's and our connected future

As the big name CIO keynoting at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Rob Carter of Federal Express could have been forgiven for doing a deep dive on how his 7,000-person IT team is using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), mashups, Web video, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python), and other checkbox items from the cool-tools list.

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AJAX and 2dotoh

Web 2.0 has a lot to answer for. Why, incidentally, is it not simply Web 2? In any case, I have no quarrel with Web 2.0: what I do have a quarrel with is all the other 2dotohs that keep springing up.

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Microsoft enters rich web application arena

On 7th November, Microsoft announced the release of .NET Framework 3.0, beta 2 of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, Release To Market (RTM) of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office for the 2007 Microsoft Office System, and Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for the .NET Framework 3.0, and on 14th November, RTM of Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition (VSTS) for Database Professionals.

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Google updates web toolkit for better performance

Ajax development tool gains performance and OS X support Google has released a version 1.2 of the Google Web Toolkit. The application has been ported to Apple's OS X operating system and has been tweaked to deliver better performance....

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Microsoft Office Live Is Now LIVE in the U.S. And Available in Beta in France, Germany, U.K. And Japan


REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Microsoft(R) Office Live in the United States at http://www.officelive.com/ after being in beta for nine months, and its free beta availability in Japan, France, the U.K. and Germany on Nov. 21.

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Browser Emulation Scanning Technology (BEST) for Detecting JavaScript Code Vulnerabilities in Web


Rapid7, provider of the award-winning NeXpose enterprise vulnerability management solution, today introduces Browser Emulation Scanning Technology for scanning Web applications for vulnerabilities in JavaScript code.

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Web 2.0 at a glance

Weather you think it's a hype or the second coming, Web 2.0 is everywhere: But exactly what is it and what is a typical Web 2.0 project?

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Google Takes Out Ajax Spreadsheet iRows
by Michael Arrington

Along with ZohoSheet and NumSum, iRows is one of a few online Ajax spreadsheets that competes with Google’s own Excel-clone. The blog reports that the founders will retain the intellectual property in iRows, but that the site will be ...

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• iRows vs Google Spreadsheet Comparison

Web-dev IDE adds AJAX, Web 2.0 features

ActiveState is beta-testing a new version of its IDE (integrated development environment) for dynamic web applications. Komodo 4.0, due in early 2007, features a bevy of "Web 2.0" features, such as support for client-side AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML) languages, including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML.

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Multiply.com Tries The 'Anti-MySpace.com' Approach

In the past year, sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook have turned online social-networking into viable industry. Six- and seven-figure monetization deals will do that.

Multiply.com wants a piece.

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Software creates Ajax applications using Google Web Toolkit


Built on WindowBuilder Pro, GWT Designer(TM) v1.0 uses wizards, WYSIWYG builders, and bi-directional code generation to help developers create and test GUIs in Eclipse and Java before deploying them as Ajax applications. Developers can drag-and-drop composites, layouts, and controls when building user interfaces. Features include Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) support, acceleration technology and plenty of other nice things...

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Bindows Ajax and 508 compliance

MB Technologies Inc. of Warner Robins, Ga., said the latest version of its Bindows software development kits has been designed to conform with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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Skitsanos Web Objects for RapidQ republished

Skitsanos CGI development framework for RapidQ (aka Web Objects) has been republished. Please have a look for updated links below.

Links

• Web Objects (obj_http.inc) download
• Using Web Objects for RapidQ

Is Fjax the best use of Flash ever?

When the big tech brands like Amazon start using Ajax to improve their user interface you know the tipping point has been reached. So how long will it be before the great and good embrace Fjax, aka ‘Ajax 2.0’?

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New software adds RSS feeds to Dreamweaver websites

RNSoft has released RSS Replay1.0 , a Dreamweaver extension for placing RSS feed content within webpage layouts. The plug-in lets webmasters add their choice of RSS feed to their website from within Dreamweaver without retyping or using copy and paste and without needing to know any RSS/XML code.

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Adobe's Flex 2 Challenges AJAX

A recent update to adobe's Flex Rich Internet application development platform makes the technology less expensive to use, and could make Flex more competitive with open source AJAX development systems. Flex 2 includes a number of free features, such as the Flex SDK. The real changes, though, are in pricing, where Adobe is looking to reduce the cost of simple Flex deployments.

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MindTouch Announces Open Source Framework

MindTouch, a provider of intranet wiki solutions for the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) market, has announced that developers can create service-oriented architectures (SOA) through MindTouch Dream, an open source framework for building "Web 2.0" services on the Novell-sponsored Mono platform.

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Jabber Messenger Announces Messenger for the Web 5.0

Jabber, Inc., a provider of real-time presence and messaging solutions, has announced Jabber Messenger for the Web 5.0 for Federal Government customers.

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Backbase AJAX for JAVA

The Backbase AJAX Java Edition is now available for download. Java developers can now quickly and easily add AJAX interfaces to their new or existing applications. Based on JavaServer Faces (JSF), our latest software release integrates with any type of Java technology and takes care of all the AJAX plumbing work. Its tight integration with Eclipse also allows developers to work on all phases of development without having to switch tools. The new Backbase Java Edition is decisively the most comprehensive AJAX development framework for enterprises.

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Backbase Weekly Webinar

Every Thursday at 1pm Pacific time Backbase presents a live webinar, which gives a high-level introduction of the Backbase software. It takes about 30 minutes, and you can also ask questions. If you have in-depth technical questions, please contact us directly: in that case we can do a tailored presentation for you and your colleagues.

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Maitenance Update for Backbase Community Edition

Backbase have just released a maintenance update for the Client and Community Editions, called 3.1.6. This release solves certain issues with Firefox 1.5.0.4 (for details, please see the release notes). The same changes have also been incorporated into the Java Edition 1.1.2. We strongly recommend all users to upgrade to these latest versions.

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Safari and Opera Support in Backbase AJAX

In our effort to support all major web browsers, we are well underway to support Safari, Opera and Mozilla Minimo. We invite all of our community members to participate in the Backbase playground to test support for these browsers. We appreciate your feedback, which is extremely useful input for our development teams.

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AJAX Tutorial on Oracle.com

A new tutorial on the Oracle Technology Network guides developers through the process of getting Ajax and their Java applications to work well together. The article is titled Enabling Data Exchange in Ajax Applications and is written by Andrei Cioroianu.

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Web 2.0, AJAX Bring New Era of Threats

Malware attacks created using emerging Web development tools such as AJAX are expected to begin showing up more frequently, as writers of malicious code match the skills of their legitimate counterparts.

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Sun joins IBM for Ajax development

Sun Microsystems has joined the Dojo Foundation , a group developing an open source development kit for creating Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) applications.

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Hackers use Ajax to access to Yahoo e-mails

A worm targeting Yahoo e-mail users illustrates how the open source Ajax web development language can open the door to attackers, security experts have warned.

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Ajaxium

Ajaxium replaces ASP.NET postbacks by AJAX, transforming existing ASP.NET applications to Web 2.0 without Javascript or server-side coding.

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